The seeds of success were sown a decade earlier, five town administrations ago, at a meeting in Richfield Springs during the fall of 2014.…
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One of the foremost challenges facing rural hospices is the sheer geography. Unlike their urban counterparts, rural hospices often cover vast areas, requiring extensive logistical planning to reach patients in remote locations.…
I reached out to Bryan LoRusso for an update on progress at the former Hartwick school building. This is his report: “My family purchased the ‘Old School’ in 2023. Since the closing on the property, it has been quite an undertaking to clean the structure out and begin the process of rehabilitation..."…
135 YEARS AGO
Corn is still and probably always will be our staple commodity. Last year we produced 2,000,000,000 bushels. The average price paid was only 23 cents per bushel, but even at this low price the commercial value of the crop was $74,000,000. This is almost equal to the value of all the gold, silver and lead mined in the United States in 1887, which was worth $87,535,000. Corn is our greatest crop. It makes hogs and cattle and alcohol,…
40 Years Ago
The computer is going to summer camp. James LeMonn, a spokesman for the American Camping Association said his organization’s “Parents Guide” for 1984 lists 180 camps with computer instruction programs. The fad started about two years ago, he said. “We view it as a temporary phenomenon,” LeMonn said. He pointed out that camps providing foreign language classes were very popular in the 1950s. When schools started including more complete language programs, the camps faded. He predicts the same…
Our National Debt dates from the earliest days of the American Republic. When we fought the Revolution, we borrowed (from France) to pay for the weapons needed to take the fight to the British.…
A new Employment Services office located at the Ford on Main will be the employment hub for Otsego County and bridge the employment gap between people with disabilities and employers.…
160 YEARS AGO
Local—Real Estate: Mr. N.H. Lake has purchased of the Prentiss estate the building in which he does business, and in which, for about 40 years this paper has been published.
Mr. Andrew Shaw, Jr., has purchased the building adjoining us on the east, of the Stowell estate, to be occupied by him as a hop store. Mr. S. will become a resident of the village in the spring.
Mr. D.A. Avery has purchased the lot opposite the mansion of Mr.…
70 YEARS AGO
Violet Marie Bradshaw’s long masquerade as a man exploded dramatically in a criminal court in Columbus, Ohio after a judge sentenced her to the penitentiary for embezzlement. Arrested last summer as Vernon Bradshaw, 35, of Kenova, West Virginia, on a charge of embezzling $2,000 from an ice cream company, Violet served three days in a county jail before release on $1,500 bond. After sentencing at her trial on February 10, a man who identified himself as Patrick Bradshaw,…
Beekeepers take up the activity for various reasons. Most want their own sustainably-sourced honey. Some expect to make money from it.…